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THE

Hongkong

Government

GAZETTE.

NEW SERIES.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 21ST FEBRUARY, 1857.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. II. No. 86.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE"

will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

No. Ca.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

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W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

Notice is hereby given, that all Official Communications involving questions of Law, are hereafter to be sent in the first instance to G. COOPER TURNER, Esquire, who will take the necessary steps with reference to the same.

By Order,

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 17th February, 1857.

No. 29.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Notice is hereby given, that the Certificate of British Registry, No. 23 of 1854, granted to the Lorcha Tucklee, of this Port, has been this day cancelled.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 18th February, 1857.

No. 30.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

It is hereby notified that, at a Meeting of the Executive Council held this day, EDMUND R, MICHELL, Esquire, Acting Harbour Master and Emigration Officer, took the necessary Oaths, and was declared a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 19th February, 1857.

No. 31.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

His Excellency The Governor, with the Advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased to appoint J. C. POWER, Esquire, Collector of the Police and Lighting Rates in this Colony for the Year 1857..

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 19th February, 1857.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.